CHF is devoted to the national debate on the state of the humanities. Last year’s Festival featured Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, in conversation with Morton Shapiro, president of Northwestern University. High-level engagement with a local angle continues this year in a discussion between Cathy Davidson, recently named by President Obama to a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities, and Michael Hogan, who was recently named president of the University of Illinois. Davidson, a Duke University professor of literature, advocates digital approaches to the humanities; Hogan is a prominent historian of American diplomacy. Their wide-ranging conversation will touch on the present and future of humanism.
Read the CHF blog post about this program.
This program is generously underwritten by American Airlines.
The 2011 programs at the UIC Forum are sponsored in part by the Chicago Community Trust.
